Proposal: Improved and consistent use of color swatch markers in GUI

[Aleksandar Kovač]

Premise:

Affinity products establish a GUI convention for users to discern color swatches using simple visual markers:

• Global colors: lower-right corner white triangle marker
• Spot colors: lower right corner dot mark marker

Problem:

...and then this convention is forgotten. Except for Swatches palette, GUI does not allow User to see these markers to gain useful information whether the color applied is spot/global. Lack of this information contributes to...

• increased chance of user error when working with palettes where there are visually similar global/local or spot/process colors,
• color mixups,
• timewasting by clicking on the swatch in main bar to verify if correct swarch has been applied.
• timewasting by fixing swatches when/if they are not as expected,
• occasionally gnarly-fied creative flow,
• 'Shucks! Not again!' moments while on the phone with printing office...

(All of the above contributes to worsening Weltschmertz, semi-superficial existential doubts, unhealthy cookie intake and cold, damp feet)

Proposal:

Use the above swatch markers consistently in Affinity products' GUI. Small and obvious example of consistent use of swatch markers is in the image below. This approach can and should, I believe, be applied throughout Affinity products.